"We are the slaves of objects around..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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“Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.”
“The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.”
“Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.”
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“...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.”
“Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even”
“The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.”